When Flat Stanley Comes to Town......

Ok everyone, remember back to your elementary school days...do you remember Flat Stanley? For those who can't or didn't participate in this great project, Flat Stanley is a character from a book who is a boy who is flattened when a bulletin board accidentally falls on him. In the story, Flat Stanley is mailed to his friends so that he can see the world (oh if we could all save money on airfare like that)

Last week, we recieved my 6 year old cousin Connor's Flat Stanley in the mail. We had to spend a few days with him taking pictures and then putting them in his journey journal to document his journey. Here are just a few photos of his visit with us (so far)

Flat Stanley celebrates Mardi Gras with me at Sacred Heart (this is him with the parish staff, complete with Mardi Gras shirts and beads!)

Flat Stanley joined the Navy for the day and went to work with Shaner

The way his teacher has him doing it, he has sent Flat Stanley out and he needs to be mailed around to as many people as possible between now and May 1st, when he needs to be returned to his school in Connecticut.
Would you like to have Flat Stanley visit you? If you do, all you have to do is spend a few days with him, take pictures of your adventures, print them and place them in his journey journal. What we are doing so that we can keep track of where Stanley is located and that he makes it back to Connor's school is making a list of everyone he is supposed to go and once you recieve Flat Stanley and complete your visit with him, you mail him onto the next person on the list. We just need to make sure that he does return to Connor's school around May 1st (he is graded on this project) Either leave me a comment or email me at kimberly.chapman@hotmail.com if you want to take part!

A Celebration for Baby Trevor

Today at work my co-workers put together a nice lunch celebration for Trevor's upcoming arrival. It was so nice to celebrate with everyone on the staff now that I have finally reached the end of my pregnancy. I started working at the church when I was 8 weeks along with Trevor, and now that it is exactly one week until my due date, it was nice to celebrate the ending (soon) of my pregnancy with people who have literally seen me from the very beginning of this adventure :) Trevor recieved some lovely, thoughtful gifts and many well-wishes today and I can't thank everyone enough for their kindness.

One of the adorable gifts for Trevor--A train with his name made by Amy's husband!

Snow in Hampton Roads!!!

Yesterday we finally got some snow here in Portsmouth. We have had several false alarms for snow the past few months but finally Mr. Weatherman came through! We woke up on Monday morning to a snow-covered neighborhood. The dogs thought the snow was interesting...it was their first time having snow on the ground. It was funny to see them hop around the yard because the snow was so chilly on their feet. Their little fun in the snow must have tired them out because once the got back in this is what they did for most of the day.

It Is March...

First I apologize for the obnoxious delay in any sort of update. Since my last post we have been very busy with getting the last minute things done for Trevor and with being sick...

now that it is March 1st......here is my thought for the day....

On New Years, we celebrated with our friends Whitney and Noah--after midnight, Whitney turned to me and said "We are going to have babies this year!" (She is due with a baby boy, Tanner, about a month after me)
This morning I woke up and realized that it is March 1st...we ARE going to have a baby this month. YAY!!!

Come on little one, feel free to make your appearance at ANY time :)

Friday Painting

Friday, Shane got off of work a little early so we met up at Color Me Mine (the pottery studio I worked on the fundraiser with) to paint some tiles for the wall. Shane is really artistic, so the Haiti committee from church asked him to paint their tile for him--that is what he worked on. For the wall, we offered special Sacred Heart tiles for people to have personal messages on written on them, so I spent the time painting the church's logo on a few of them. While we were there, we were able to sneak a peek at some of the finished tiles from the painting day two weeks ago--they look amazing!

Here are some pictures of the tiles we worked on Friday afternoon....

the Sacred Heart custom tiles---just need people's personal messages to be added on

the tile for the Haiti committe that Shane painted

Doctor's Appointment

Tuesday morning I had my 34 week appointment at the hospital to check and see how things were going with little Trevor. Everything is looking wonderful with him. Trevor is measuring 2 weeks ahead of where we should be, so my doctor is thinking that he might be here a little sooner than our original March 12th due date. He has always measured a little bigger than he should have, but I guess a two week difference actually gets the dr a bit excited....I have my next doctors appointment in about two weeks when I am 36weeks and 6 days along, so we will see where we are at by then.

Pictures!

A few weeks ago, I mentioned how my friend Dana came over to take some maternity pictures for us. Last night she posted a sneak peak of our session on her blog! The pictures are absolutely amazing! Dana is such a talented photographer and I can't say enough wonderful things about her and her work! To see the pictures on her blog, go to www.danaduncan.blogspot.com.